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improver of circumstances. good boy.

i just found out VS Code is written in Typescript what the fuck i just assumed since it's Microsoft that it'd be written in C# that's probably the second stupidest thing to write in Typescript after the Typescript compiler


you're telling me this javascript developer is mid

mechanical_monk's tweet image. you're telling me this javascript developer is mid

damn it's getting harder most ppl still can't play chess at this level. i blunder the queen like 1 in 10 games and a minor piece or an exchange maybe 1 in 2. fascinating (just so that i can find this later: 1700 elo)

mechanical_monk's tweet image. damn it's getting harder

most ppl still can't play chess at this level. i blunder the queen like 1 in 10 games and a minor piece or an exchange maybe 1 in 2. fascinating

(just so that i can find this later: 1700 elo)

yoooooooooooooooooooooooo lfggggg

mechanical_monk's tweet image. yoooooooooooooooooooooooo lfggggg


one of the quintessential ESL experiences is listening to a band at age 13 when you don't know enough english to understand the lyrics and then finding out in adulthood that they're right wing or something


funny that Effect.ts is to Typescript exactly what Typescript is to Javascript, namely the answer to "what if {language}, but properly typed"


btw, idk who needs to hear this but for generating images, Gemini Imagen 4 Ultra is incomparably better than Nano Banana only text -> image tho, no (image + text) -> image e.g.,. first 2 outputs i got from NB vs first 2 outputs from 4 Ultra "create a realistic aerial…

mechanical_monk's tweet image. btw, idk who needs to hear this but for generating images, Gemini Imagen 4 Ultra is incomparably better than Nano Banana

only text -> image tho, no (image + text) -> image

e.g.,. first 2 outputs i got from NB vs first 2 outputs from 4 Ultra

"create a realistic aerial…
mechanical_monk's tweet image. btw, idk who needs to hear this but for generating images, Gemini Imagen 4 Ultra is incomparably better than Nano Banana

only text -> image tho, no (image + text) -> image

e.g.,. first 2 outputs i got from NB vs first 2 outputs from 4 Ultra

"create a realistic aerial…
mechanical_monk's tweet image. btw, idk who needs to hear this but for generating images, Gemini Imagen 4 Ultra is incomparably better than Nano Banana

only text -> image tho, no (image + text) -> image

e.g.,. first 2 outputs i got from NB vs first 2 outputs from 4 Ultra

"create a realistic aerial…
mechanical_monk's tweet image. btw, idk who needs to hear this but for generating images, Gemini Imagen 4 Ultra is incomparably better than Nano Banana

only text -> image tho, no (image + text) -> image

e.g.,. first 2 outputs i got from NB vs first 2 outputs from 4 Ultra

"create a realistic aerial…

some ppl think that `.unwrap()` means "trust me, i KNOW that the value is there" actually it means "IF and WHEN the value turns out not to be there, that's such a fundamental violation of my assumptions that i can't define any semantics for the program if it continues running

It would have been better if named .or_panic() People will think twice before using it

AstraKernel's tweet image. It would have been better if named .or_panic()

People will think twice before using it


hey how do i get my echeveria to chill tf out

mechanical_monk's tweet image. hey how do i get my echeveria to chill tf out

release it in the API, cowards

GPT-5.1 is out! It's a nice upgrade. I particularly like the improvements in instruction following, and the adaptive thinking. The intelligence and style improvements are good too.



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